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U.S. wildlife officials plan to list monarch butterflies as threatened species.
Environmentalists say monarch populations are shrinking because of warmer temperatures from warmer temperatures.
Monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains typically migrate to the California coast.
People and farmers could continue to remove milkweed, a key food source for monarch caterpillars.
Monarchs west of the Rockies have a 95% chance of becoming extinct by 2080 , a biologist says.
Most of the U.S. monarch population — 90% — can be found east of Rockies and that population faces a 57% to 74% probability of extinction.
The agency has until December of 2025 to publish the listing if it moves forward.
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